Computer scientist Sebastian Seung compares the different ways one can write code to the styles of writing essays, highlighting the importance of clean, parsimonious code for programming beginners. He also discusses how asking the right questions and understanding the context is key to a successful interview.
The host discusses the challenges of programming episodes during the pandemic and how the absence of hair and makeup affected the show's format.
The speaker recalls building programs for playing games like blackjack and solitaire, and working with assembly code and PDP assembly code in his early programming days.
After working at PBI in the UK, the speaker moved on to programming, preferring to learn new languages and work on programming instead of staying in a company where unless you were at the very top, it wasn't very interesting.
The speaker talks about how he has been programming for two and a half months and highlights how walking through a forest helps him in his work.
Derek Sivers explains why he learned programming out of necessity to automate time-consuming tasks while running his business CD Baby and shares his recommended directives.
